Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC

I just found this information on the Oak Hill Cemetery.  It answers some questions and raises others!

OAK HILL CEMETERY, Georgetown, D.C. (North Hill)

Lot 101

JOSEPH HYSSETT / died / July 13, 1849 / aged / about 33 years. / AMY HYSSETT / born / Dec. 4, 1819 / died / Nov. 6, 1893. / HYSSETT. // ANNIE GERTRUDE / born / Aug. 8, 1878 / died / March 2, 1880. / Infant son / born / June 14, 1887 / died June 14, 1887 / both children of / Nicholas and Sarah J. / Eckhardt.

Notes:  Amy Hyssett is, I believe, Amy Padgett, the half sister of my 3rd great grandmother, Mary Ann Tinkler Smith.  They had different fathers, same mother.  Their mother is Hannah Tinnkler, age 54, listed below.  Amy had another sister, Hannah, both being listed in the family Bible pages.  Until now, I had not been able to find any additional information on these two sisters.  So this was a great discovery!  I found her maiden name on FindaGrave, memorial #55104535. Because of Bible records and the fact that she is buried in the same lot as her mother and other family members, I believe this proves the relationship.

MARY I. LANDER / died / Aug. 1, 1897.  I think all the LANDER names should be LAUDER, per Bible records.  FindaGrave also lists this name as LAUDER.
This is Mary Isabela Tilden Vessey Lauder.

  ELIZA LANDER / died / July 31, 1881.  This is Eliza Riggles.

EMMA L. MEANY / 1861-1862. / 
FRANCES Jeanette MEANY / 1858-1870. / Daughter of John Meany and Fraces Lenetta Smith
ANNA SMITH / 1901, aged 2 month [sic].  daughter of Samuel T. Smith and Minnie Riggles Smith

FANNIE MEANY / 1832-1881. / MARY I. MEANY / 1863-1933.

In memory / of / MARY ANN / beloved wife of / T.H. Smith / born / April 21, 1827 / died / Jan. 15, 1887. / She lived not for herself, / but for others. / She hath done what she could.

[cross and crown] / RICHARD RIGGLES / Born at Lincolnshire / England / March 23, 1802 / Died in Washington,

D.C. / Feb. 5^th 1880. / Gone but not forgotten. / Also his wife / MARY / Died Dec. 31, 1891 / Aged 81 years.

Removed from an unidentified location, 7 JUN 1859: 

Vessey, Leonard, age 38    

Vessey, Sarah, age 38 

Vessey, Thomas, age 6 

Tinkler, Samuel, age 48

Tinkler, Hannah, age 54 

Hyssett, Joseph 

Riggles, Jane, age 4

I believe the three Vesseys are a family unit.  Also, Samuel and Hannah Tinkler are husband and wife, parents of Mary Ann Tinkler Smith, wife of Thomas H. Smith, listed at the end of these listings.

Unmarked Burials:

Vessey, Margaret, age 25, bur. 16 DEC 1855

Vessey, John, age 35, bur. 22 MAR 1862 

Riggles, Eliza, age 10y3m, bur. 16 APR 1862

Vessey, Fanny C., age 1y6m23d, bur. 7 AUG 1862 

Vessey, Mary J., age 32, bur. 6 FEB 1863

Riggles, James, age 44, bur. 20 DEC 1863 

Vessey, Mary E., bur. 22 APR 1864

Smith, Elizabeth M., age 62, bur. 30 NOV 1867 

Hamner, Willie, age 10m13d, bur. 25 SEP 1868 

Vessey, Ruth Gertrude, age 1y7m, bur. 4 FEB 1873 

Vessey, Leonard, age 48, bur. 27 MAY 1877 

Lander, John W., age 5m, bur. 21 DEC 1884

Lander, Ethel, age 1m14d, bur. 1 AUG 1889 

Lander, Margaret M., age 7, bur. 7 SEP 1890 

Lander, Edward M., age 1y1m, bur. 2 DEC 1892 Hayward, 

Ruth I., age 25y6m, bur. 28 OCT 1895

Lander, Infant of J.W. and Mary I., stillborn, bur. 8 MAY 1896 

Hayward, Mary Ann, age 62, bur. 7 DEC 1901

Drechsler, Henry, age 45y11m, bur. 20 JUL 1904 

Hayward, John, age 81y11m1d, bur. 11 JAN 1911 

Beall, Infant of John A., stillborn, bur. 2 JUL 1918 

Vessey, John Thomas, age 55, bur. 27 AUG 1918

Smith, Thomas H., age 91, bur. 3 NOV 1926

I am still working on sorting out who is who and who belongs to whom, but it is a wealth of information!  I will update as I learn more.

I am also wondering if the people marked as being relocated in 1959 died in the cholera epidemic of 1848-1849 in Washington, DC.  Still trying to find more information on that.  I have had no luck tracking down information on who died in that epidemic.  Although Bible pages list Samuel and Hannah Tinkler as dying in 1844, I am wonderiing if perhaps there was a mis-reading of some other records.  In the 1850 census, their children are listed together, and Mary Ann is listed as age 21.  Somehow the children managed to stay together.  Amy Hyssett is also listed in two census records as living with Mary Ann, further strengthening my belief that they are family.

More Church Records

This is a followup to Sunday's post.

Thomas Henry Smith (1835 - 1926) and Mary Ann Tinkler (1827 - 1887) were married in the Union Episcopal Methodist Church in Washington, DC.  I guessed that this was Mary Ann's church, as I had other records showing Thomas as a member of Calvary Baptist Church, along with their two children, Ida May (1867 - 1930) and Samuel Thomas (1869 - 1962) and both their spouses.

I had been searching for records from Union ME Church without luck until Sunday afternoon AFTER I made my Sunday post here!

I found christening records for Ida May and Samuel, along with christening records for Samuel's wife, Minnie Riggles (1869 - 1938).  It appears that these three were christened in the Union ME Church and later were baptized in and joined Calvary Baptist Church.

Name                         Ida May Smith
Gender                       Female
Christening Date       27 Sep 1867
Christening Place      District of Columbia
Birth Date                 30 Mar 1867
Father's Name           Thomas H. Smith
Mother's Name          Mary

Name                         Samuel Thomas Smith
Gender                       Male
Christening Date       21 Sep 1869
Christening Place      District of Columbia
Birth Date                 27 Mar 1869
Father's Name           Thomas H. Smith
Mother's Name          Mary Ann

Name                         Minnie Riggles
Gender                       Female
Christening Date       21 Sep 1869
Christening Place      District of Columbia
Birth Date                 23 Mar 1869
Father's Name           Thomas Riggles
Mother's Name          Annie M.

Notice that Samuel and Minnie were christened on the same day!  How cool is that?

"District of Columbia Births and Christenings, 1830-1855", database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F75B-TBQ:6 December 2014)

Thomas Henry Smith

A conversation with my cousin yesterday prompted me to write a post about my second great grandfather on my mother's side.

Thomas was born October 14, 1835 in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka.  His father, who he was named after, was in the army and died there while serving.  Unfortunately, military records are scarce for that time and location.  A brother and sister, also born in Ceylon also died there.  Once her husband died, Elizabeth Butcher Tinkler, Thomas's mother, returned to England with her three remaining children, Mary Isabella, Francis Lenetta and Thomas Henry.

Family lore has it that relatives "kidnapped" Thomas and took him to Ireland to raise while Elizabeth and the two girls came to America, settling in New York.  Thomas ran away from his relatives and stowed away on a ship to join his mother and sisters in New York.

To earn money, he had a fish cart that he pushed through the streets, selling fresh fish.  He was known as "Catfish Tom".  Some time ago I saw a television show on how the Irish were forcably conscripted into the Army during the Civil war.  I am sure Thomas was one of these, although I have yet to find concrete proof.  He does have a quite common name, which makes researching him that much more difficult.  He served in the Army as a cook, being stationed in Washington, DC.  Subsequent census records list his occupation as "huckster" or "market huckster", showing that he continued selling foodstuffs from a cart.

June 20, 1865 he married Mary Ann Tinkler and they had two children, Ida May Smith, my great-grandmother, and Samuel Thomas Smith.  Ida went on to marry Willard Reed Haight, and they had eight children, including Esther May Haight, my maternal grandmother.

Thomas spent his last years at the John Dickson Home in Washington, DC, dying November 3, 1926 at the age of 91.

HAIGHT / SMITH FAMILY BIBLE PAGES

Today's post is a treasure trove.  I have scanned copies of the originals, but decided to transcribe them to make it easier to read the information.  

HAIGHT / SMITH FAMILY BIBLE PAGES

Transcribed by Shirley H. Hobbs

GRANDPARENTS

                                                            BORN                                                 DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                     WHEN            WHERE                    

Grandfather’s Father

David Addams Haight                Aug 1796          Dutches Co, NY             May 5, 1876      Delaware, Albany Co. NY

Grandfather’s Mother

Sally Ann Avery                         Apr 1809           Albany Co. “                  Oct.17/88          Delaware, Albany Co. NY

Grandmother’s Father          

Jefferson Monroe Bullock                   1818         Spottsylvania Co, VA     Sep 1865          Hanover Co. near Ash Coke, VA

Grandmother’s Mother

Amanda Fitzallen Cox                Aug 9, 1819      Spottsylvania Co, VA     Mch 1856         Caroline Co., Va                                                                           

PARENTS

BORN                                                 DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                     WHEN            WHERE                    

Father     Edwin Reed Haight        May 14, 1841    Albany Co., N.Y.           Oct. 17, 1915    Washington, DC.

Mother    Lucy Ann Bullock           Oct 15, 1843     Spottsylvania Co., VA    May 16/79         Washington, DC

THEY WERE MARRIED                           at  Washington, DC               by   Rev.             Butler

CHILDREN

BORN                                     MARRIED                                          DIED

             NAMES       WHEN            WHERE         When              To Whom                                                      

1.  Mary Augusta           Dec 9/66           Lambs Creek. Pa.                                                                     Aug 22/71

                                                            Tioga Co.

2.  Willard Reed            Dec. 24/67              “                 Apl.17/89          Ida May Smith of Wh. DC          April 5/1926

                                                                                                                                    (Willard)            Spring of 1903

3.  Arlynn Mortimer        May 17/69               “

4.  Edwin Wallace          Jul 26/72           Washington, DC

5.  Walter Reed Berry    Apr 19/79                 “                                         Married

6.  Arthur Clarkson        Nov. 1/80                 “

     Son by Mary Janette Clarkson Born  June 22/60 (date not clear). 

7.  Ralph Avery                       /94         

8.  Elmer F.      

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FAMILY RECORD

MISCELLANEOUS

Grandmother Tinkler’s name,        Hannah or Ann Riggles

                                                            Born about 1790, England

                                                            Died    “       1844, Washington, DC

Grandfather Tinkler’s name            Samuel

                                                            Born about 1796, England

                                                            Died    “       1844, Washington, DC

Grandmother Smith’s name           Elizabeth Mary Butcher

                                                            Born about 1805, in Portsmouth

                                                            County of Kent, England

                                                            Died Nov. 28 (?) 1867, Wash., DC

Grandfather Smith’s name             Thomas Henry

            (Soldier)                                 Born 1769, Portsmouth, County Kent,

                                                            England

                                                            Died about 1837, Kandy Island

                                                            Of Ceylon, East Indies

Father Smith thinks his Grandmother Butcher was born in Scotland

    “          “        “        “   Grandfather Butcher was born in England

Father had a sister Mary (Smith) Vessey born 1829, England

    “        “    “     “     Fanny (Smith) Meany   ‘     1831, England

    “        “    “ brother Sidney Smith              “     1833,      “

Information received from Samuel T. Smith, brother

Of Ida May Smith (Haight), born Mch 28. 1869 Wash., DC

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FAMILY RECORD

MISCELLANEOUS

Furnished to Sam’l T. Smith by John W. Lauder, of Wⁿ DC

            Thomas Riggles and Millicent Richardson married July 5, 1814

            *Hannah Padgett born Nov. 2, 1817 – ½ sister to Mary A. (Tinkler) Smith

             Amy Padgett born Dec 14. 1819 -       “      “      “    “      “                    “

             Samuel Tinkler, born Aug 17. 1823

             Mary Ann Tinkler, born Apl 21, 1827

             Eliza Tinkler, born June 24, 1831

             Samuel Richard Tinkler, born Oct. 17, 1831 (?)

             William Thomas Tinkler, born Feby 13, 1834

             James Riggles and Eliza Tinkler, married Aug 21, 1855

             Mary Ann Millicent Riggles, born Aug 31, 1856

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FAMILY RECORD

GRANDPARENTS

                                                            BORN                                                 DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                     WHEN            WHERE                    

Father’s Father

Edwin Reed Haight                    May 18/1841     Albany Co. NY              Oct. 7/1915       Washington, DC

Father’s Mother

Lucy Ann Bullock                       Oct. 15/1843     Spottsylvania Co. VA     May 16/79         Washington, CD

Mother’s Father

Thos. Henry Smith                     Oct.14/1835      Island of Ceylon            Nov. 3, 1926             “

Mother’s Mother

Mary Ann Tinkler                       Apl.21/1827      Schropshire or               Jan 15/87                 “

                                                                        Lancashire England                                       “

PARENTS

                                                            BORN                                                 DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                     WHEN            WHERE                    

Father

Willard Reed Haight                   Dec. 24/67        Lamb’s Creek                Apr. 5/1926       Kents Store, Fluvana Co. VA

                                                                        Tioga Co. Pa.

Ida May Smith                           Mar 30/67         Wash’n D.C.                 Mar. 30/1930    Richmond, VA

THEY WERE MARRIED April 17, 1889 at Washington, D.C. by Rev. Sam’l Green

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Great Grand Parents

Father’s Grand Parents

                                                            BORN                                                 DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                     WHEN            WHERE                    

Grand Father’s Father

1.

Grand Father’s Mother

2.

Grand Mother’s Father

3.

Grand Mother’s Mother

4.

Mother’s Grand Parents

                                                            BORN                                                             DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                                 WHEN            WHERE                    

Grand Father’s Father

5. Edwin Reed Haight                May 14, 1841    Albany Co., New York                Oct. 17 1915     Washington, D,C,

Grand Father’s Mother

6. Lucy Ann Bullock                   Oct. 15. 1843    Spottsylvania County, Va,          May 16, 1879    Washington, D.C.

Grand Mother’s Father

7.  Thomas Henry Smith            Oct. 14, 1835    Island of Ceylon                        Oct. 1926          Washington, D.C.

Grand Mother’s Mother

8.  Mary Ann Tinkler                                          England                                    Jan 15, 1887     Washington, D.C.

above probably written by Ida Smith Haight, most of rest of page below also probably by Ida except where noted otherwise

Grand Parents

                                                            BORN                                                             DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                                 WHEN            WHERE                    

Father’s Father

9.

Father’s Mother

10.  Laura Howard  (this is a different handwriting from the rest of the page, probably Carol Bishop)

Mother’s Father

11.  Willard R. Haight                 Dec. 24, 1867   Lamb’s Creek                            Apr. 1926          Columbia, Va.

                                                                        Tioga Co. Pennsylvania

Mother’s Mother

12.  Ida May Smith                    Mar. 30, 1867    Washington, D.C.                      Mar. 22, 1930    Richmond, VA

Parents

                                                            BORN                                                             DIED

                       NAMES          WHEN            WHERE                                 WHEN            WHERE                    

13.  B. Howard Bishop               Oct. 23, 1892    Leechville, NC

14.  Minnie B. Haight                 Nov. 1, 1893     Richmond, VA

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Children

BORN                                     MARRIED                                          DIED

             NAMES       WHEN            WHERE         When              To Whom                                                      

1.  Carol Lee                 Oct. 10, 1920    Portsmouth, VA Aug.2, 1940      John H. Wickham                     

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Names                                   Nationality                Where Educated     Occupation                                                                                                                                                              or Profession

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.   Edwin Reed Haight                          American                      New York Co. School    Real Estate

6.   Lucy Ann Bullock                                    “                            Virginia Co. School

7.   Thomas Henry Smith                        British                          Ireland & N.Y.               Merchant

8.   Mary Ann Tinkler                                    “                            England

9.

10.

11.  Willard Reed Haight                        American                      Washington, D.C.          Baptist Minister

12.  Ida May Smith                                          “                                          “

13.  B. Howard Bishop                                  “                            St. Paul’s Beaufort, NC  Traveling Salesman

14.  Minnie B. Haight                                    “                              Elizabeth City H.S.        Sales person

Page 5b  probably written by Carol Bishop Wicker

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Family History

Names             Religious                     Converted or Confirmed                      Baptised

                        Persuasion                  When   Where                                      When   by Whom

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

Names                         Cause of Death                        Where Buried              Vault. Monument

                                                                                                                        Or Headstone

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.   E. R. Haight             Heart trouble                             Washington

6.   Lucy B. Haight         Child Birth                                         “

7.   T. H. Smith              Old age                                            “

8.   Mary Ann Smith                                                               “

9.              Bishop          Appoplexy                                 Leechville

10.  Laura Bishop                   “                                               “

11.  W. R. Haight                    “                                       Washington

12.  Ida Haight                       “                                       Richmond

13.

14.

Page 6  Probably written by Carol Bishop Wicker

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Names and Birthdays of our Children –

Walter Clayton          May 30, 1890            Harrisonburg, VA

Effie Vieve                 June 4, 1892             Richmond, VA

Minnie Belle              Nov. 1, 1893                     “

Thomas Edwin          Sept. 13, 1805          Swansboro, VA

Esther May                Oct. 13, 1897                    “

Amy Catharine          June 29, 1899                   “

Arlynn Reed              Oct. 15, 1902            Portsmouth, VA

Lucy Wallace            Aug. 7, 1904                      “

Charles Parrish         Nov. 18, 1906                    “

       Died Friday a.m. 3²⁵, July 3, 1908  1 yr. 7 m. 15 days

This information was written by Willard Reed Haight, on the flyleaf of his Bible.

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Family Record

                  Marriages                                             

Thomas Smith to

Elizabeth Mary Butcher

By the Rev. W. Tynell

St. Paul’s Church

Dublin   April 4, 1827

Mary Isabella Smith

to Leonard Vessey

By the Rev. W. French

Church of the Epitheny

Washington, DC

Nov th 13

John L(?) Meany to

Fannie Smith

by the Rev ?? Anthony

at the Rectory

St. Marks’ Church

June 9, 1856  in New York

Thomas H. Smith

to Mary A Tinkler

by the Rev. M. Leman

June 20, 1865

Washington, DC

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Deaths

Thomas Smith died

March 23, 1838

On Garrison Trincomalee, Ceylon

Sydney Smith

Sep 29

Colombo

Martha Ann Smith

March 16 1834

Colombo Ceylon

Mary Vessey died

Feb. 4, 1867

Washington

Births

Thomas Smith

June 24, 1800  (29?)

In Munden County Kent, England

Elizabeth Mary Bucher

Born May 5, 1808

In Sandwich. St. Portsea,

Portsmouth

England

Sydney John Born

June 14, 1830

in garrison of Colombo, Ceylon

Frances Smith

Born Oct 9, 1831

Kandey, Ceylon

Martha Ann Smith

Oct 24, 1833

Kandey, Ceylon

Thomas H. Smith

Born Oct. 14, 1835

(last line cut off) 

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Pages 8 and 9 were handwritten by unknown person on paper.  I have chosen to include them with the Bible pages.  Handwriting was very difficult to read.